I'm a relatively experienced dev with MediaWiki, but completely new to Wikibase. I've been attempting to install Wikibase Client on my wiki in order to access Wikidata over the public API. I am interested in read-only access.

First of all – is this even possible? The documentation is unfortunately very muddy and focused on completely different use cases. By looking at stack traces Wikibase Client produces, I start to suspect the only way to connect to a repo is by direct DB access, which is of course off the table for anyone that isn't Wikimedia :)

If I'm doing this horribly wrong (and I suspect I am), do you know any sensible ways of accessing Wikidata remotely in a wiki? Something like a parser function.

Thanks in advance :)

Ostrzyciel